A funny paragraph about DHALGREN and poetry: http://www.highclearing.com/archivesuo/week_2004_05_09.html#005326 Jim Henley's advice to poets includes: Read...
Hi, I´m Marcelo, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I´m a librarian student, 28 years old. I´m a reader of Chip since 1990, And my favourite novel of him is...
I'm also from Argentina. Do you have any idea where can I find Dhalgren? I've been trying for a while with no luck. Apparently the last edition in Spanish was ...
Hey Marcelo and Agustina- Welcome to the list! We're glad to have you. Dhalgren in English was recently republished. I bought a copy a year and some ago....
Hello: I´m new in this list. I have read Delany since a long time. I only know the sci fi books of Chip, I had the chance of read some interviews about his...
Hello Agustina! Well, In spanish you have the Ultramar edition (edited in Spain), in three volumes, that´s the version I own... For a original version, you...
Thank you James for the welcome! I´m glad to be here. What are the last Sci fi books that Chip had written? The last publish in spanish is "In Cyron they fly"...
Hey Marcelo, Agustina and friends, It's not too surprising that you read Chip's older work and didn't see that he's gay (SRD has also been called "bisexual",...
Hi everyone! Now I see that I focus the matter the wrong way. See Ya! ... ===== "Schreibe mit Blut: und du wirst erfahren, dass Blut Geist ist." Friedrich...
Greetings, I've been lurking for some weeks and I wanted to introduce myself -- my name is Philip and I'm an HR drone, but that's not important right now. One...
Delany and music... What a delightful story! And on that subject, does anyone on this list have any information about any surviving musical recordings or...
[The Disclaimer: I actually just signed on to this group, don't even really know how to navigate it and already I'm posting a question. Really, I do...
I would love to hear more about this, myself. The first time I met Delany I asked him a question about the modular calculus, but he was in a hurry and it may...
As Ralph Dumain surmises, it's science fiction, pure and simple, and has no existence outside the novels. It's meant to sound plausible and to reveal aspects...
... Maybe this is reductive, but I guess I have always understood "the modular calculus" as being something like the systematized and sophisticated use of the...
... science fiction in general constituting a practice of Delany's modular calculus, in the way it paralleled/critiqued/deconstructed the "real" world? ...
A great, big thank you to Ralph, Ray, Ron and Derik for your detailed, empassioned and quick responses, and in particular for the citation to Damien Broderick...
... That's how I read it too. I think the device of calling everything "informal notes toward..." is a way of saying "there's no adequate systematic way to...
hello fellow readers of Delany and Dhalgren esp. I am the moderator of the group listed below. We are a group of writers and readers , of artists and poets, ...
I lent a 79 year old friend of mine The Mad Man. He recalled seeing, years ago, pieces of it in a gay magazine and was eager to read more. He writes: Many...
That is interesting, David. I was just thinking about The Mad Man a few moments ago. I had read The Mad Man last summer, I found it to be a delightful book....
... Relatedly, while on vacation in San Diego a couple months ago, I bought a very nice hardcover signed first edition of The Mad Man. Actually, it's doubly...
This is a totally random post, since I haven't read and don't yet own the book (actually, a friend of mine offered to buy me a Delany book for a favor I did...
... Or a sygn, anyhow? ;-) Unfortunately, I think it means no sequel is expected soon, since you'd think they would have coordinated the release if that were...
And a Wesleyan edition no less! This is very exciting. -Pete ... Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger [Non-text portions of this...
... you'd think they would have coordinated the release if that were the case. I read Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand recently (January) and since then...
I don't know. Maybe I was in a mood. I was very emotional at that time (returning to where I am now, after having spent 10 days with all the people I love and...